Improving A Relic Piece

A little while ago I was commenting on how this Miguel Tejada jersey card was confusing because he was pictured as both an Oriole and an A on the card and the card doesn’t give you a clue as to which jersey it’s from. Now take a look at this jersey rel…

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I was watching The Natural on Sunday night after the Oscars and after Roy Hobbs/Robert Redford first breaks out into baseball super stardom it flashes to a scene of Roy Hobbs baseball cards hot off the presses.As the cards flashed by they looked like 1…

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Has anyone run into this yet or heard of anyone that has? Having a valid contest code come up invalid.

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The 2010 Topps Giveaway poll results are overwhelmingly in support [77% to 23%] of doing the smaller trades with more people over one big wiener. You want it, you got it.Here’s how we’ll do this. If you’d like some of the cards listed below leav…

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Along with Bipping, Thorzul’s idea to have people send him a complete 2010 Topps Series 1 set is pretty ingenious. I’m sure there were a lot of “why didn’t I think of that” throughout the card blogging world that day. Well, my idea is sort …

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The AwesomeI’m still waiting to pull the card commemorating the dumping of 1952 Topps into the Hudson and so until I pull that card I’ll have to be content with what will probably be my 2nd favorite card in the set:2010 Topps Tales of the Game #TOG-10 …

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The Bad2010 Topps Checklist #1 Lance Berkman and Mike HamptonHere we have Lance Berkman looking like Chumlee from Pawn Stars minus the goatee…The card is captioned “Photo Day Fun” and, to me, nothing spells fun like putting my face really close to an…

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Over the next few posts we will be building toward a Topps 2010 Giveaway of my own. To get there I’ll highlight what I think is good, bad, and awesome about this year’s Topps flag ship set.The Good:God only knows how many times this design has been pri…

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I’m so far behind in my A Pack To Be Named Later posts that I feel like I’ll never catch up…

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I had a dream of writing a great Roberto Luongo vs. Ryan Miller post last week in preparation for Canada vs. US II…plus I could highlight my awesome Roberto jumbo card from last year’s Victory set…2008-2009 Upper Deck NHL Victory Hockey #OS2 Rober…

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Before I call the Card Blogging Security Council together to report a Bipping after the Thorzul’s Bip-armistice was called I thought I would document the atrocities for the world to see!Not 5, not 10, not 15, but 20 Bob Hamelin Star Rookies arrived on …

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This Week In Bad 2010 Topps cards he have…2010 Topps #284 Ross OhlendorfGod, what did Ross have to eat for lunch…

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Of all the 1952 Topps cards I’d love to win from the 1,000,000 Card Giveaway the top one would be card #1 Andy Pafko. Close behind it would be #274 Ralph Branca.Not only is it apart of the Flipping, Trading master set I am working on, it is also the f…

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In downtown Lawrence we have an antique mall that brings together the finest back issues of Life magazine and U.S. Silver dollars anyone could ask for. One of the dealers there has a random selection of book value priced baseball cards that I look thr…

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I’ll post this over on A Pack To Be Named Later too but I’ll show it here first.Don’t buy these. Don’t ever buy these. Don’t even make direct eye contact with them because they will take your money and give you only poor quality chrome cards.#127 Jas…

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I’ve been inspired by the 1,000,000 card giveaway to go back and strengthen my vintage collection, not so much with stars, but with important/interesting cards. This brings us to this beauty:1969 Topps #653 Aurelio Rodriguez [Error Card]This is one of…

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These 1,000,000 Card Giveaway cards keep getting better and better! I bought three packs today at Target in a failed search for new Heritage and ended up pulling two Giveaway cards. It should have taken me 12 packs to do that so the Card Gods were sm…

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What’s a better Valentine’s Day gift than really old baseball cards? Maybe a coupon for a free hug? [any Modern Family fans out there?] The answer is nothing. I had been almost exclusively buying cards online from Checkoutmycards.com. The se…

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Adam E. from Thoughts and Sox is observing the Bip-bargo that Thorzul has called and instead sent me some Royals plus some great new-ish cards of The Killer that I don’t own yet.2008 Donruss Threads Century Stars #CS-2 Harmon Killebrew2001 Topps Topps …

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There comes a time in every card blog’s life when they are obligated to do a post like this. My day has come today. I now present my Rusty Kuntz collection: 1981 Topps #112 White Sox Future Stars1981 Donruss #282 Rusty Kuntz1982 Topps #237 Rusty Ku…

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A lawsuit was filed today against the Kansas City Royals mascot Slugger that said during the course of a game back in September the mascot throw a hot dog into the stands hitting a fan in the eye and detaching his retina. My only question is what was …

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I can always count on Reader Michel to send a great package of cards every once in a while. Sometimes it’s all baseball, sometimes it’s all non-baseball. The latest one was all non-baseball which was a refreshing change from my recent …

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I’m two for two, bitches!

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These four cards are all from my pack with my 1,000,000 Card Giveaway card…I didn’t really notice it at first but all these photos look more like they should be from the Upper Deck set…ignore the lettering in the bottom left corner and no logos are…

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Before I begin usual broadcast of my all 100% negative thoughts about 2010 Topps I must say that this card is at one time great because it’s a Tom Seaver card and horrible because of the substandard presentation. Great idea, poor execution…a lot lik…

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The mystery here is whether this is an Orioles jersey or an A’s jersey. The back gives no indication which team it is from either. You can’t really see it in the scan too well but there is some definite schmutz on the jersey. 2005 Donruss Prime Patche…

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I blew some of my tax return on some stars from my 1971 Needs List. I’m now about 68% complete on the set. 1971 Topps #300 Brooks Robinson1971 Topps #230 Willie Stargell1971 Topps #276 George Foster/Mike DavisonHow great is George’s expression here?19…

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